Barbed-wire fence



(No Model.)

B. L. LEWIS. BARBED' WIRE FENCE.

No. 465,630. Patented Dec. 22, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLIOTT L. LEWVIS, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

BARBEEI-WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,630, dated December22 1891. Application filed June 15, 1891. Serial No. 396,274. (Nomodel.)

I 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIOTT L. LEWIS, of Troy, Rensselaer county, NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbed-Wire Fences,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates'to that classof wire fencing which is composed of aseries of links, usually barbed; and it consists in the 0011- structionof said links and their combination to form a continuous fencing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is aside view, of my improved fencing. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Each link a b 0 consists of a length of wire A, doubled and halved onitself to form at one end of said link the eye B. At the opposite end ofthe said link the two parts 0 D of the wire are bent over to form theloop or eye E. The said bent-over ends 0 D are carried, one on each sideof the doubled wire A, forming the standing part of the link, and; theyare then bent transversely across and on the rear side of said standingpart to form the barbs F. The said barbs are substantially parallel oneto the other and are turned in opposite directions.

The manner of uniting the links is as follows: The ends 0 D of the linkI) are inserted through the eye B of the link a and are then bentoverthe standing part of the link in the manner already described. Theends G D of the link 0 are in like manner passed through the eye B ofthe link b, and so on. I may of course, if desired, carry the ends 0 Dof one link through the eye formed by the links 0 cl of the adjacentlink; but in practice the arrangement above described is best employed.

This fencing is strong, durable, and easily and cheaply made.

I claiml. A wire-fencinglink composed of alength of wire doubled to forma loop or eye at one end of the link and having its extremities bentover to form a loop or eye at the opposite end of said link, the saidbent-over extremities being carried rearward, one on each side of thestanding part of said link, and bent transversely across said standingpart.

2. A wire fencing composed of a series of enchained links, each linkbeing composed of a length of wire doubled to form aloop or eye B at oneend of the link and having its eX- tremities O D bent over to form aloop or eye Eat the opposite end of said link, the said bent-overextremities O D being carried rearward, one on each side of the standingpart Aof said link, and bent transversely at E and F across saidstanding part, the eye B of one link engaging with the eye E of the nextsuccessive link, and so on, substantially as described.

' V ELLIOTT L. LEWIS.

lVitnesses:

W. H. SHIELDS,

LOUIS LOEWENSTEIN.

